Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Honest , mister , I 'm the 'ardest luck case I ever 'eard of , ’ she said , halfway through the second sandwich . |
| 2 | As well as William I also spoke to Jim . |
| 3 | I have good reason to remember a booklength early monograph of hers , published in the British journal of Animal Behaviour : it was almost the first text I ever read as an apprentice sub-editor . |
| 4 | And on Sunday afternoon I often went to Kidlington , to eat large teas and remember another world . |
| 5 | As I was quite unable to organise the shop myself and continue with my studies at the university I quickly came to the conclusion that I would have to appoint a temporary manager . |
| 6 | The first part I ever did at the Old Vic was Ophelia , in 1957 . |
| 7 | I compare the Government 's record to the experience I once had of helping to redecorate a pensioner 's home to brighten up the dingy gloom . |
| 8 | Sir : I would like to relate to you an experience I recently had at a computer dealership on Oxford Road , Manchester , which I think may , in part , explain the ever downward spiralling morass computer retailing finds itself in . |
| 9 | I once played James ‘ Rocky ’ Mountain of the FBI in a ‘ Children 's Hour ’ programme , and when I saw my name in the Radio Times I just stared at it for ages . |
| 10 | It was one of the worst trips I ever made in Venturous and it was my last . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was too confining for his poetic mind for he said of it , ‘ The only good I ever got from it was the memory of the words ‘ sonus disilientis aquae ’ and the old wall covered with weeds opposite the school windows ’ . |
| 12 | Therefore , I decided that I had the clue to something that had long baffled me , that whereas Levis 's strict division of the world into sensuous particulars and more intellectual abstractions — I hope I 'm being fair to him , I 'm caricaturing and shortening _ whereas this was applicable to the modern period , it probably was n't to the period I decided , I think , roughly before the eighteenth century , and with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as simply a logical construction for talking about the way people behave in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 13 | And with this in mind I then turned to the mysterious last plays of Shakespeare that we 've been talking about earlier , erm and tried to see whether the sense one gets in those plays of love , for example , not as erm simply a logical construction for talking about the way people talk in relation to each other , but as some kind of spiritual entity , existing prior to the human subjects in the play , whether that sense could be in some degree confirmed and explained by an investigation of the general use of universals in the period and earlier . |
| 14 | The books I actually borrowed from the library — the bad-tempered bump of the date stamp dying in my ears — were adventure stories . |
| 15 | There 's a beauty special offering 50 tips on how to look good this summer and a piece I particularly liked on the importance of laughing . |
| 16 | In fact , the first piece I ever wrote about fish was on this topic . |
| 17 | They were the best two words I ever heard in my life . |
| 18 | Like she was high , not on booze or pills but some of that good mellow shit that used to go the rounds at the first dinner parties I ever went to , at Liza 's place , when the world was young and lovable . |
| 19 | LADY JONES : Such sackcloth and ashes doings for a wedding I never heard of ! |
| 20 | Restored in 1960 for the Temora Aero Club she eventually fell into disuse and was sold to Ray Windred of Dungong , New South Wales , as a basket case . |
| 21 | Almost desperately she sought solace in her own private ‘ pictures ’ , the programme she never tired of , which she had projected on to her drowsy mind countless times as she lay in bed before dropping off to sleep , or half-awake on Sunday mornings . |
| 22 | That 's because large events involve extra considerations you never dreamed of when doing a small conference . |
| 23 | and this Molly she always had to be different |
| 24 | The photograph she always used as a bookmark fluttered out of it . |
| 25 | THE BOOKS YOU ACTUALLY READ ON HOLIDAY : |
| 26 | And Lisa 's heart brimmed over as , with a look of adoration , Alexander responded with the words she never tired of hearing . |
| 27 | Why , Mamma , I could astonish you with a great many words you never heard in your life . |
| 28 | By the time Robert Forbes was introduced to Lorna Lewis he was free , rich and forty-one ; his hair had turned almost completely white and he was the perfect partner for a beautiful actress , eighteen years old , who was so full of ambition she almost trembled with it . |
| 29 | ‘ You know , the only ambition she ever had for me was to marry well and bring up the colour of the family . ’ |
| 30 | Despite the obvious influence of Impressionism in the appearance of Walker 's pictures she also worked under the umbrella of ‘ decorative symbolism ’ — belonging more specifically to a tradition dominated by Puvis de Chavannes , which was authoritatively identified in relation to Augustus John by David Fraser Jenkins in his essay ‘ Slade School Symbolism ’ for the Barbican exhibition catalogue , the Last Romantics ( 1989 ) . |